2.3.11

My girlfriend is majoring in Astronomy, so for her birthday I made some astronomer matryoshkas. She is really awesome so I tried to make a gift as awesome as she is. I had planned them out for months and it was great to finally be able to give them to her and see the look on her face as she opened each one. These were done with acrylic on wood (I am really rusty at painting and acrylics are maybe my least favorite medium :/), and I kind of cheated and used a brush pen for the black lines, since I couldn't really pull off the detail in paint. The downside is that the ink from the pens comes off the paint when you handle them so I have to put a varnish on them. Hopefully, if you know anything about famous astronomers, you can guess who they are (without cheating!).

-EDIT-

"Dear Nate,

These are backwards.

-The Internet"

Well, yes, I suppose so. But for whatever reason, since childhood I've always thought of each nesting doll as giving birth to the next tiny pregnant woman. I think maybe a short on Sesame Street is responsible... Anyway, thats the impetus of the cockup.

These are awesome! Though I am wondering what the thought process for the selection of each doll. I dont mean that as criticism. They were all great men who were ground breakers in their field. I'm just wondering why, for example, Copernicus over Brache/Kepler, or Ptolemy? Or Sagan over Hubble? I'm not suggesting you should have done these over the ones you made. Each of them made huge contributions. Like I said, just wondering about your thought process.